New Stock at The Vault in Wellington, November 2024
New Minu paper mache sculptures are now available via The Vault in Wellington. Bring a touch of magic to your space. Available now :).
Art
Posts about art and making.
September Writing Update—Progress update on revisions for The House
Progress update on revisions for The House and other news. Progress update on revisions for The House The second revision focusing on plot and…
Shop Update, September 2024—new paper mache listings
Update 28th October: The two Forest Walkers are now available via The Vault in Wellington. New creations in the shop! Bring a touch of…
August Writing Update—Layering Revisions, part 1
Progress on the House and insights to layering revisions Progress on my revisions for The House The revisions for The House, the second book…
Using Claude, the AI Chatbot by Anthropic, as a Line Editor and Critique Group
Artists, Writers and AI, Part 2 Using Claude AI as a Line Editor and Critique Group This is a follow up on The best…
The Thing About Social Media, Part 4—Enshittification, dis-enshittification, and silver linings
Cory Doctorow’s 2024 Marshall McLuhan lecture “Seizing the means of computation: a better internet is run by and for the people who use it”…
The Post I Didn’t Write
I’m invoking my one-strike rule. My mind is racing all over the place, and I can’t keep up. I am in despair; I am…
July Writing Update—#ShutUpAndWrite, 2024
Reset—putting writing before marketing and promotion Reset—putting writing before marketing and promotion. During the last weeks, I have been realigning my habits with my…
The best of times, the worst of times—Artists, Writers and AI, Part 1
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,…
Minu Freitag’s Crazy-Cute, Joy-Sparking Sprites, by Elizah Leigh
Elizah Leigh, the Curatorial Creativity Connoisseur and Contributing Author at Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, wrote a beautiful article about my work for Quirky Fox. I…
The Thing About Social Media, Part 3—Light on my feet
Time to think and re-set. I feel so much better now, thank you. With my already lighter social footprint*, the rat-race pressure to post…
June Writing Update—#ShutUpAndWrite, 2024
I might just be able to pull this off! Revisions on the House After a solid six weeks caught in my scene wrangling spreadsheet,…
The Thing About Social Media, Part 2—Thank you, but no.
Thank you for your offer, but no. I quit. The AI revolution is here, and it will not go away … … I still…
The Thing About Social Media, Part 1
So … where do we go from here? Delete Forever. Rinse. Repeat. I spent last weekend deleting hundreds of posts from Instagram and still…
Look inside—The Cloud @ Quirky Fox, Hawera
Take a closer look at my new work included in The Cloud. The theme of the exhibition is a contemplation—if a humorous one—on the…